13 ways I used to promote my blog to success
I have been wanting to share how I have promoted Balkhis in the beginning and still am doing it. I will share all the ways that worked for me and which ways I kept on going with and which roads I have slowed down. I will try to go as much depth into it as I can. Don’t worry about the tip number. Usually 13 is a bad one but in this case as you continue reading it will become the best number of your life.
Before I start, I will mention that I launched Balkhis on Feb 1, 2008 and its 6 months old now. I think this website has grown tremendously. I have 538 subscribed readers via feedburner and numerous that are not subscribed. Balkhis has made me $1923.58 in the month of July from my older posts which contains Affiliate links and adsense. Affiliates were a big part of that income. Direct sales were low but affiliates dominated.
Let me share I did I get to this point. Blog is such a broad subject you can promote it just about anywhere.
Promoting your Blogs through Social Media
First Road that I took toward promoting my blog was Social Media. Ofcourse I had content on the site, but that is the default. I went on many different social media services, some I stayed on and some I didn’t. These social media services includes Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Plurk, Entrecard, Mybloglog, and more which I won’t mention otherwise this post will get too long.
Stumbleupon – One that gets you the most traffic. Well atleast it did for me in the beginning. So apparently I was getting visitors in thousands. Not even a big amount were continuing to be loyal readers. Subscriber count wasn’t increasing. But atleast I was getting the words across. Many of the stumble visitors find your site by just clicking the stumble button in the toolbar and it increases the bounce rate also if you don’t have a targetted user. So it cuts down your adsense revenue. Therefore I don’t stumble alot of my own posts. I let others take the initiative. I have made mistakes with stumble in the past with my other sites by stumbling alot of my own pages and got under the radar. They didn’t ban me but banned the site and I had to talk to them to get it out.
My Advice to people who use stumble: It is a very good tool to get alot of exposure. Specially for contests and others, but it won’t convert to alot of regular readers. Ofcourse learn from my mistake and don’t overdo your own site. Let others stumble it for you if they find it interesting. Stumble is a keeper for special events such as contests and other.
Digg – Digg is definately a keeper. Why? Well because you can digg your own new story if you think other people will be interested in it. Like I will with this story. I don’t digg all of my posts but occationally I do digg my posts. The main advantage that I saw from Digg is the SEO. If you haven’t noticed Digg tends to rank well in Search Engines. I use alot of long-tailed keywords, so if someone searches the main keyword Digg will pop up and through that users will read my site. This actually gain loyal readers and increase your subscriber count. Ofcourse if your post hit the mainpage than you will get alot of traffic. I haven’t wrote one that hit the first page. Maybe this will be one? With your help 
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My Advice to people who use Digg – Fellas, definately go ahead and use this social media site. It is very good to promote your blog for obvious reasons I mentioned above. Once again don’t abuse it just use it.
Entrecard – Entrecard was a big hype when I joined it. Heck I even recieved some nice traffic from it and I wrote a review with tips. But it didn’t quiet work out for me in a long run. In the beginning when I wanted more and more users. I took the route to Entrecard. It gained me some readers that are still here on Balkhis who comment regularly. It was just a time eater. You would have to spend that 30 minute constantly to drop cards otherwise you won’t get drop. So this was more like a traffic exchange system. When I stopped dropping cards while I was in Seattle for a week, other people stopped dropping on my site. Therefore I stopped period! Now I am thinking about even removing the entrecard icon. It will be soon gone when I redesign Balkhis. Its a while away…
My Advice to Readers – Definately use it in the beginning. But don’t make it a habit because its not worth your time. In the beginning you want exposure but now that I have 538 readers its not worth my time. I’d rather write quality content.
MyBlogLog – A service from yahoo that displays your recent readers on your blog. I have their widget on Balkhis. But do I use anything else but the widget now? Not really. I kinda got to know some people from there, but not that much beneficial. Once again, I did everything to gain the exposure, but this was just another boat that I abandoned.
My Advice to users – First Read my review of Mybloglog. It is definately a good tool in the beginning because more people see your blog but now I only use it to use the widget. If you want to get more exposure than thats a way to go.
Twitter – One of the major social media that I put sometime in. Well I put alot of time in to following people. If you haven’t seen my witter profile, I am following 19k people. Well I was trying a technique there. Well to this day Twitter brings me a good chunk of traffic. I am using Twitter Feed to display an excerpt of my recent blog posts so my followers can see it. Which does bring in alot of traffic. I have over 1500 followers on Twitter. Recently in the update my twitter profile also got a PR 4.
My Advice to users – Definately use twitter as it is still one of the largest microblogging site right now. Ofcourse Plurk will catch up soon but until than twitter it is. It has been bringing me alot of traffic so it is a good one. Also it got me some good chunk of readers.
Plurk – Last in the social media list, but definately not the least is Plurk. I am on Plurk alot recently. Why? because I am making alot of new friends and alot of new contacts. This is the best place to find out about new stuff. Share your new posts and others. It is not as big as twitter thats why the potential is even higher. I have been getting alot of designing contracts via Plurk as well as new loyal readers at Balkhis. My ebook did so well and I credit Plurk because alot of my friend wrote to their friends on Plurk about my ebook on How to make a Magazine Style theme in Wordpress. It has recieved over 2k downloads so far. Another good thing that came out of Plurk was that I have been getting alot of natural backlinks from other people who I met on Plurk who now mention me on their blogs. I think it is a must for everyone. I have wrote a Plurk 101 Guide. No advices here. Just join.
That concludes our list of Promoting via Social Media. Definately add me on all the social medias that you see me as.
Promoting your Blog on Forums
When I launched Balkhis, I added the link into all my forum profiles. Signature, Avatar, Homepage and others. Sites like Digitalpoint, Bloggeries are excellent. There are many more forums but not alot will just let you write about your site. You have to put some content of your site. Or even better start a viral thread with your link somewhere in the post. More people reply the better it is for you. Forums help alot in SEO as well. Most forums have very high rankings and they play a good role in the SEO of your site. Alot of users spam forums with their links and thats not the way to go. You will get banned from the forum, and I have seen cases where people get penaltised in Google for posting your links on forum alot. If you just want traffic, a good way is to use shortcut urls. Such as tinyurl.
Promoting your Blog on Blog Directories
You can always submit your sites to general directories but you know niche directories are better. Blog Directories are a good way to begin. There are paid blog directories and free blog directories, and some are free that require backlinks. I am on some of the blog directories, but when I was submitting my site in blog directories, I looked at list by Search Engine Journal. I will post some from their list:
Best of the Web Blog Search, EatonWeb Blog Directory, Blog Hub, Bloggernity, Blogarama, Blog Search Engine, Blog Catalog, Globe of Blogs, Bloggeries, Blogflux.
There are countless others. So do your search. But blog directories are a good backlink to have.
Promoting your Blog through Giveaways
Yup that is exactly how users react when they see giveaways. I have had multiple giveaways on Balkhis. First Balkhis Contest where I gave away multiple non-cash prizes, then the second one was a mini contest. Than I had Balkhis ML Contest, and I always have Pimp My Blog. Well giveaways are a biggie. Sometimes contests fail. Why because you don’t have enough exposure. This is the time when you need stumble, and alot of forum promotion. You need lots of friend who will help you promote this. But freebies are always a good one to have. I also have the link love going on where I am rewarding my readers with a free review on Balkhis. The best part is that my readers get excited and make them want to come back over and over again to this blog. Giveaway attracts loyal readers to your blog. Specially the winners. Most of the time I have seen people who won prizes at Balkhis are regular readers.
Promoting your blogh through Paid Advertising Campaigns
Paid advertising campaigns are for people who have alot of $$$ to invest. Well not exactly because you can do it on a smaller level too. You can buy ads on other bloggers blog. You can buy Paid Reviews. You can do PPC. Its all upto you. Let me share with you what I have done that was paid.
Pay Per Click (PPC) – I didn’t pay any money for Balkhis. I just used the msn starter money that they gave me. Same is what I did on Bidvertiser. I don’t think site like Balkhis needs PPC campaigns because my content is good enough.
Other than PPC, I have not done any Paid Advertising Campaigns for Balkhis.
Promoting your Blog Locally
When I say locally, I mean in person or in a smaller area. I have done some local advertisement and that was by giving away Balkhis Shirt to random people in school and at concerts. I have been reviewed on a local News Paper. I attended conferences and handed out Business cards and others. I have stores that keep my flyers of Make Money Online Blog. So it worked out well. The newspaper caused a sudden boom in my subscribers. I think alot of local people subscribed as well as more people online started taking this blog seriously. I think more and more people know about my site via business card as well. I got flyers, and business cards for free. (Read my post about Free Business Supplies). I am also sending out mails with my stamp on it and a free stamp for the people to use when they send their mail. Local Advertisement pays off if done right.
Promoting your Blog through Indirect Marketing
Indirect marketing is when you are trying to market your blog by sending people gifts and others. I have that option available at Balkhis. People send me gifts and I write about them. Market Leverage advertised their site on alot of blogs by just buying their t-shirts and wearing it. I have sent in my shirt at Shoemoney but I think he got too big of a pile, so didn’t get reviewed. He probably threw mine away, who knows.
Last but the best Technique I used was:
Promoting your Blog by commenting on others blog
This is by far the most effective way to promote your blog. In many ways it is. Let me start by saying is that you get more exposure. Comment on all size of blogs. Try to comment on those blog that reward you. Meaning allow top commentators and have do-follow. Balkhis is one of those blog. Two of my regular readers have created a list of alot of blogs that reward you. Here and Here.
There are many reasons why this technique is the best one. First if they reward you then you can be in the top commentator which means a sitewide link. That means you get exposure from that plus where you commented. Make useful comments and that blog’s reader will come to your blog. The other blogger will see that you read his/her blog often and they will check out your blog. Even subscribe to yours. Most likely than not if they can they will write about you also if they can. You also get to see what others are writing about to get inspiration. This is the best technique so make this a habit.
Share with me the tricks that worked well for you in the comment area. If you try the tips I mentioned above, let me know how it worked out for you.
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Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Very nice post. Story has been Dugg, and I shall try some of the techniques. After I switch to WordPress from Moveable Type and get everything working the way I like it.
I also wonder is it worth putting yourself on some of the other, smaller social networks that has a loyal base and use an aggragate poster like Hellotxt, Ping.fm or SocialThing to promote your blog?
ping.fm is a time saver because you can write one thing and post it on all different social media networks. I personally like posting on the social networks manually so I can reply to other messages as well. But I haven’t tried SocialThing or Hellotxt so I can’t say anything about those.
I have to agree on the manual posting, especially when it comes to Plurk.
As far as Hellotxt, it supports quite a bit of networks and their mobile interface is superior to ping.fm’s. Give it a try, you’ll like it. Social thing though is a great one, Not only can you post from it, you can post replies to different services and in Pownce’s case, follow converstaion strings. There is some Plurk support, but it’s not quite there. If you want, I can shoot you an invite since it’s closed beta right now.
send me one via contact form. Or if you need my email address send me a message on contact form and I will reply so u can use the email id.
Very well said, nice post…
I see johnchow using adwords bcoz he is not ranking on google…
It’s Saturday the 13th, huh? Powerful tips out of your own personal experience. I haven’t maximized the power of Digg and Stumble yet, I did notice a spike in traffic on some of my article but the bounce rates are pretty high.
Thanks for the mention, Syed. I didn’t know that you started this blog in Feb this year and what you have accomplished so far is commendable. You rocks, buddy!
Yan
Hey Yan,
No people usually consider 13 as a bad number. Hotels don’t have 13th floor…
Maximizing the power of social media is the key to heavy traffic and increase in readership. Stumble does cause a high bounce rate, but Digg not so much.
Yup I started this blog on February.
of course they have a 13th floor
) I am sure that people who live on floor 14 are not that easily fooled!!
Many thanks for this article, I will share this among my fellow bloggers!! I am a feed subscriber too!!
hehe trust me … I went to Double Tree, Hilton in Daytona … none of them have the 13th floor
Nic ehonest post, with some great tips! I have found that keeping the blog updated regularly also helps – being persistent and consistent – then others start to take notice and take you seriously! Great effort here, look forward to more success for you!
Yes Indeed you mentioned some great points. Consistent posting plays a major role in readership but this post is more about how to promote a blog so that is not directly related. But as I mentioned that Content is assumed by default which means I assume that anyone using these techniques already have content on their blog.
Very awesome post. You have about the same techniques I use. Only thing I didn’t know was about stumbleupon increasing your bounce rate and lessening adsens revenue. That’s a good tip I appreciate it.
Now how do you get so many friends on twitter and plurk that’s what I want is alot of friends. That would be pretty cool =)
Yes Stumbleupon is a killer with high bounce rates but for contests and posts like this one … It is a big big traffic hit.
About getting friends on social media its all about how you go about it.
Twitter what I did was followed 19k people. Now my strategy was I will follow so many people, some will eventually follow me, and I have 1.5k followers. So basically I went to all the top bloggers and added their followers and people following them. Which was just a test.
Plurk, I did the right way. I added some people in the beginning. I plurked them and replied to their messages. Other people start adding me. In plurk, I didn’t add alot of people myself. Probably 25 out of all I have were added by myself. I asked some of my friends to write about me and they did on their plurks so their friends added me.
I added Darren ofcourse, through there Darren posted my Plurk profile on his link love and all the people from their became my friends. I have written about balkhis and 11 people joined under my referral and people became my friend through that. With Plurk you can’t just add anyone because your Karma will drop if they reject you so that wasn’t an option, but most people add you when you have a decent karma.
My karma is in somewhere around 62 because I update often and thats why I get more and more friends because I reply to their plurks.
Yeah thats pretty cool. That’s what I love about plurk so much is you get to socialize with bloggers that you normally dont get to talk to as often or at all
yes and that makes you get good connections. More people link to you and you get more traffic. Most effective way of marketing.
Yep totally.
Hey I thought I would let you know if your interested you probably read it on plurk but for the next 24 hours if anyone writes about my fundraiser they will get a free permanent ad spot.
Don’t know if you are interested but thought I would let you know.
Here’s the link to the fundraiser
http://www.jesusencounter.org/support
I saw it but it didn’t relate to this blog, so I can’t write about it here.
ahhhh ok no problem. I understand that issue lol.
I am a huge user of twitter, digg, and stumbleupon. They are the three social networks that have brought my blog the most success. I recommend them to everyone but you really will have to experiment so you can find the best way to bring traffic to your blog.
Yup experimenting is the key. Thats how I learn everything that I knew. Hands on Experience. I share my experiences here so people won’t make the same mistakes as I did like this post
Yeah like I’m stilll getting into twitter so I havent used it much but stumble upon does good and digg yeah digg sucks for me. I got no traffic like at all from digg.
You will only get traffic from Digg if you hit the mainpage. Well significant traffc. But as I mentioned digg does have SEO effects.
Stumbleupon is kicking in crazy for this post so far.
ha ha good old stumbleupon. It works for me but it would work better if I had more readers to help stumble. Problem was my rss fees have been broken for 2 weeks and I found out last night ha ha. So my subscribers weren’t going up at all =(
while readers on the blog help in social media but it doesn’t have a major effect. You need good friends at social media sites as well.
Yeah that’s why I love plurk ha ha. Best set of friends I’ve gotten and I’ve only had it a day. Twitter is awesome to.
I use Twitter and commenting on other blogs. I also have it on every single email that I send out, and use them in my signature files when I make posts on social networking sites like Ryze. I even set up a group on Facebook where people can advertise their blogs and find link partners.
What group is that. I’m on facebook it sounds interesting. I’m always up to spreading the word.
Here you go: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47772045003
cool I joined this group too.
Cool thanks Mitch
Excellent post! Social networking sites are the best way to meet other people and commenting on other blogs is probably the most successful way of getting noticed.
Yes Enkay. Thats how I noticed you. Now I am a regular at your blog
Hey, I came here from your DP thread and and really impressed with this post and your whole blog – u might have yourself another long-term reader
I am glad you liked this blog. Will be looking forward to see you here at Balkhis.
I am struck by the quality of writing and information contained here.
You mentioned about Entrecard and you are right that it is good for beginners. It is time consuming as traffic is based on reciprocal efforts.
I have not got on Twitter or Plurk yet but I will try to spend some time there.
Jeflin
Jeflin,
I strongly recommend the two microblogging sites. Plurk more because it is new right now, so you have potential to go big.
These sites are heavy traffic hitter. You meet very nice people. You get mouth to mouth advertisement which is very good.
Cool reminder, I need to do a lot of the above again, it’s been a while. I found you through digg/twitter actually, so regards from Bali!
Nice tips, i will keep note of it.I like this one.
By promoting your Blog by commenting on others blog
Thank you
thanks for the tips!
Wow.. such an achievement in a very short time! I have to learn more from you, buddy
I think I really have to go to Twitter/Plurk.. can’t really rely on the search engine nowadays
yes I have been recommending these microblogging networks to everyone because you really make alot of new contracts which = more traffic and more readers.
Congratulations on the success but it sounds like a lot of work and time ! How mayn hors a day do you spend promoting your blog ?
Chris, I have a webdesign firm as well. So I spend around 1.5 – 2 hours on avg. writing posts. Plurk, I do it when I want to take a break from work, so I try to embed it all in my day so it doesn’t look like I am doing one thing constantly.
I don’t spend any more than 4 hours combined writing post and promoting.
Great article. After i read it , i started to use entrecards. Let’s see how it works
yes it will bring you traffic but remember that when you stop dropping cards, you will loose alot of that traffic.
These are great ways to promote a blog. The methods used will result in quality traffic. The same methods can be applied to many sites in a variety of niches. Thanks for this useful post.
Thanks for sharing – these are great techniques. I came across this post on twitter. I launched my blog a few months ago, and have had some great success with a few of these, but will try some of the others you mention.
Jason
@jjbuss
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Promoting via SB sites and commenting on other blogs is the best i think so and also advertising on other blogs gives good exposure …. guest posts on other fame blogs n others
Guest posts on other blogs work too, but I haven’t done any, so I can’t include it in the post because above are the techniques that I used in promoting Balkhis.
It’s amazing how many marketing tools have been created by the Web 2.0 boom. +1 for marketing on forums
Great Content + Great Marketing = $$$
I think that you are being a bit hard on MyBlogLog. Personally I’ve seen a nice amount of traffic from it but only when used intensively. I find that the great thing about MBL is that you can target people that are already involved and interested in your niche. This will not only give you more subscribers but if you start building up relationships with these people you will see them mentioning you and your site on their blogs and thereby drive their traffic to your site.
Mikael
@Mike
I didn’t find it as useful because I wasn’t recieving much traffic from it. But you may recieve alot. Above are my experience with services.
People have different opinions of each service
Syed, the reason I commented was merely to make you rethink whether you should give it another go.
I agree that you might not get much direct traffic compared to Digg or other similar sites but I do believe that the networking that can be done will beat whatever one time traffic you might get due to the very nature of long term networking. But yes… these are all opinions
Thanks for the tips, I have also used some of the techniques, however you have offered some great suggestions.
Make it great,
Matthew
The Daily Insight
Excellent article. I was pointed in your direction by a friend via Plurk, which has been a fantastic traffic earner.
Nice post Syed – how is it doing on Digg? I know I dugg it….
Digg is going fine … I got above 50 diggs I believe. Haven’t checked. It won’t hit first page now because it is too late.
Found this post fromDP forum, this is SUPER.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Syed.
Fantastic post, very informative. I too find Entrecard a kind of waste.
Tremendous wealth of information in this post. I have to go back and use some of those social networking sites… Well done!
Found this post on Bloggeries – Makes for a great read and picked up some really useful tips. Nice one.
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kirkdesigns.co.uk
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I haven’t been very active in these social networking sites but have seen some traffic when people stumbled my posts. You’ve given very useful information here. Thanks.
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very interesting and insightful read. thank you for posting. i will certainly use these 13 tips to help promote my blog in the future, thank you.
Seems like an exhaustible list as it is. I’m surprised that the commenting technique got you the best result. Also, I’ve tried Twitter but found that it’s really difficult to get followers. Any tips on that?
Really appreciate the post. Will check back for more gems.
Cheers!
Well some of the work sounds hards, but you have to understand I didn’t do this all in one day. I did a little daily, so It didn’t seem like alot. I enjoyed it and was excited to see the results.
Commenting technique is the best one.
You should use the search button and find out my twitter techniques.
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Thanks for giving nice tips
Half of them r being used by me.
Wow! That was a great article packed with useful tips. I never thought much of social network sites. I thought they were worthless. This post just changed my mind and the fact that this blog is only 6 months old and making serious money is a huge inspiration. THANK YOU!!
I have used StumbleUpon in the past with great success. It’s a winner. I’m going to add these other promotional methods to my daily task list.
Bravo!! Well done
This is definitely a very good article. I love the content and provided me with a lot of thinking whether to stay linking on those directories you have mentioned. I don submit my sites to those blog directories that requires their chiklets to be on your site and you are right. The blog looks like a directory list.Thanks a lot for sharing.
Great article. After i read it , i started to use entrecards. Let’s see how it works
Hi Syed,
Thanks for writing such an inspirational post. I like this best:
“Twitter what I did was followed 19k people. Now my strategy was I will follow so many people, some will eventually follow me, and I have 1.5k followers. So basically I went to all the top bloggers and added their followers and people following them. Which was just a test.”
I may test it out myself. Judging by the high volume, there is a good chance to have a certain success.
Peter Lee
This seems like a great strategy. Hmm I will try that. I haven’t read your other blogs; just to let you know, I found you on blog patrol under forums. Thought you would help me and perhaps your advice will. Well. I shall part.
Sure thing, shoot me an email when you need a short advice. I will do my best to answer it.
Digg worked good for me more than stumbleupon
I know about most of these great tips. Will have to check out the local thing. See some good benefits from that!
Excellent article, thanks for the tips. In my opinion another great way to promote a blog is yahoo answer, but avoid linking your blog in every answer you give or they’ll ban your account.
That is a very nice tip, but I tend not to go find every answer. But that is a good way to promote an entertainment website
Thank you for the great tips here on promotion, what to do and what not to do. Great read.
Great tips. The most important aspect of marketing is planning in advance. If you make a strategy, it will be simple to achieve goals.
I am just starting out on blogging and you have really provided with excellent information.
I am from DP and got here following your comment to one of the post….
Nice way of letting people know of your existence !!!
Hey,
such an informative article on blog promotion. I post with rich content and submitting such posts in Social media sites can help a lot to promote your blog.
excellent post man, I am really excited about all of these information you provided to us casue I have just started blogging and hope these advices will bring me some kind of traffic…. once again, thank you very much
Nice tips, i will keep note of it.I like this one.
By promoting your Blog by commenting on others blog
Thank you
Very well said, nice post…
I see johnchow using adwords bcoz he is not ranking on google…
Nic ehonest post, with some great tips! I have found that keeping the blog updated regularly also helps – being persistent and consistent – then others start to take notice and take you seriously! Great effort here, look forward to more success for you!
I read your 13 steps to attracting traffice. It was interesting. One of the best I have read. I am a new blogger. My blog deals with articles about works of nature. And the content I have are unique. I dont know whether it will attract traffic since its not about money.Please kindly checkit out and let me have your opinion.
This is it http://naturedesignblog.synthasite.com
Thanks
Your site does not have to be about making money to attract traffic. You just need to provide quality content.
Good post.I agree, commenting on blogs is very effective.Try to comment on relevant blogs and deep link back to a post you have written instead of linking to the home page every time.
This is a good post, I pretty much follow most things that you mention however I found the social bookmarking to be tedious so I gave up on that. maybe I will have a look at Digg and some of the others you mention in this article again.
Yes consistent posting is one of the basics. And in regards to the “top commentator” thing this is a great technique. But I find many blogs turning it to be “nofollow”. The dumbest thing. Whats the objective, i’ll never get to learn if one intend to promote interaction on ur blog by rewarding with “Top commentator” widget.
Just wanted to make the point. Nice effort Syed.
Good comprehensive list about promoting a blog. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Very nice post. I will definitely use some of your methods to promote my own website. Thanks for sharing with us this information.
Thank you for this very informative post! There is much here I was not aware of, and will definately be working on the next bit of time. Perhaps I’ll be able to revive my own ailing blog with some of these suggestions.
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i wish someday my blog could be popular like your blog!!! keep up the goood work!!!
Some great tips here Syed. I primarily practice “Promoting your Blog by commenting on others blog” And could not agree more that it is the most effective way to get your blog rolling.
Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.
I’ll be watching you .
Thank u for your article.
This has been a great help! Thanx a lot! I am really new to blogging(just started it few weeks bak) and I am looking for ways to promote my blog! ur post has been a great help! thanx again!
Pretty cool post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
that I have really liked reading your blog posts. Anyway
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you post again soon!
I would love to have more traffic and I am glad I came across this article! Very helpful tips! Thank you!
Nice post. Thanks for your sharing. I will try this for my blogs.
Syed, Thanks loads for all of these. I’m sure going to try them all on my existing blogs and future ones. IMHO, I felt StumbleUpon had given good traffic for me.
I have found several good how to promote listings, but I have to bookmark this list for sure so I can come back and work my way down it.
I’ve had a couple blogs for about a year, but there was a gap where I did not have much free time to update either, so now I am trying to get one of them going again. I came up with some ideas I am currently working on.
I liked the give-a-way idea, I’m not sure what I could use as a prize as over the past year I’ve invested money in the blogs (web hosting/domains), without earning anything back (yet!). However, it’s something else for me to put on the list
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Thanks so much…trying them out. Also “dugg” it, of course!
Anyway, thanks!
Jennie
Thank you for this advice and tips, hope i can gain traffic by doing this…i am sure to apply some of this in my blog.. wish me luck!!!
Thanks for making this post. Great guide for new bloggers on the second most important part of successful blogging. Lots of Great Content + Promotion/Marketing = Profits.
Dude! its amazing, really good work done by you, i have gone through your history, and found my self same like you because i am also interested in all these things but i am on the starting stage. That’s why your post became more catchy for me.
keep it up and keep helping new people…!!!
Best of luck
Awesome post, this is just what we have been looking for in order to start promoting plugin.com out there in the wild! So far all words of wisdom, would be great to see a part 2 of this!
thanks!
Thanks for your expertise and recommendations, I do appreciate it. I was trying to create awareness for my blog that seeks to teach people how to turn their hobbies into information products that will generate thousands and millions of dollars.
Wow! This port is really enlightening. I have just started my own blog and was looking at means to attract some traffic to it (I mean, part of the reason why people blog is because they want others to read it, right?) Thanks Syed Balkhi for awakening me to these 13 (I believe it’s a great number) ways by which I can promote my blog better. I am still a novice in the blogging arena and am constantly hunting for methods to make my work better. Hoping to make my blog a success.
Thanks ! This has been very informative as a beginner to this bloogin lark! Thanks
Your Twitter technique is very impressed me. I will try it later to increase my traffic later. Cheer!!!